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  1. Andy9o8
    Oooh, wow.... you're just too tough to compete with.
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    I was referring to the subjects' credentials as they existed when they first ran for public office. Like Reagan, governor was Ventura's first public office. Unlike Franken, he didn't graduate with honors from one of the best universities in the world with a degree in government. Oh, Harvard. Their Graduation Class of 2013 speaker was Oprah Winfrey, wasn't it? Yes, yes, I know. Uppity niggers really bug you, don't they? And what could she possibly have to share with graduates about overcoming adversity, perseverance and getting along in the world? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_winfrey
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    I was referring to the subjects' credentials as they existed when they first ran for public office. Like Reagan, governor was Ventura's first public office. Unlike Franken, he didn't graduate with honors from one of the best universities in the world with a degree in government.
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    A classic win-win! --- But seriously, the old system of having and keeping health insurance being dependent on current full-time employment and good health is an arcane dinosaur. Lost your job, or had your hours cut back? Goodbye health insurance. Had a heart attack or cancer within the past 7 years and now need to purchase your own coverage? Forget it! - you're deemed "uninsurable", and basically cannot purchase private health insurance even if you want to, because no insurance carrier will sell it to you. The US is the only Western nation where this nonsense still goes on. Fix it, Ron. If you don't like the down-sides of Obamacare, an unwieldy amalgam whose flaws are largely the result of The Politics Of "No", then propose something that actually works, and doesn't simply maintain the old, obsolete status quo. The mentality of Do Nothing just doesn't cut it.
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    You're so cute.
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    Amusing. Doesn't advance the discussion any, but still amusing.
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    You can find lots of shit in the Third World that's outrageous by modern Western standards. Yeah, a fair share of it is in the Muslim world. So what? Any random asshole can find and cherry-pick such stories. Ol' Rick's a one-trick pony.
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    Like Al Franken or Sheila Kuhl... Well, credentials are not unimportant, either. Franken attended Harvard University, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in, well... government. Sheila Kuehl is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she, too, excelled academically. She became the first woman to win "Best Oralist" in the law school's prestigious Ames Moot Court Competition, judged by a panel including Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
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    Grey area. Very fact-specific, on a case-by-case basis; and two different well-intended judges could easily disagree with each other on how a particular case should be classified. A good example of how legalities change with the times corresponding to how social standards change with the times. For example, back in the early 1960s, standup comics like Lenny Bruce used to get arrested for violating obscenity laws for using certain curse words or explicit sexual references. But nowadays, the (mostly federal) courts consider bans of "mere words" on grounds of obscenity to be unconstitutional.
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    It has to be a real threat against a real person, AND designed/intended to actually be perceived by the person who is the subject of the threat, in order for it to not be protected.
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    Oh, look - another Rick-hates-Muslims thread. I mean, it's been at least a day since the last one.
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    I believe you're wrong, as far as the US is concerned. Just expressing hate against an identifiable group is definitely not illegal. You might start to get in trouble if you advocate violence against specific individuals, and post information obviously intended to facilitate that violence. For example, some years ago people got into some trouble for advocating that doctors who perform abortions should be killed, and then publicizing the names and work and home addresses of those doctors. By "got into trouble" I mean they were just ordered to stop publicizing the names and addresses, after a doctor on the list was shot and killed in his house in front of his kids. Despite the truism about "shouting fire in a crowed theater", I suspect it would be difficult to prosecute someone in the US even for doing that. They would just have to claim they smelled smoke. Don Sorry, MrCWood; GeorgiaDon is 100% correct - hate speech is most definitely protected under the US Constitution's First Amendment.
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSNyiSetZ8Y
  14. Andy9o8
    Whatever. Grunt; drool; drag your knuckles; post. It really doesn't matter.
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    Silly boy. You know better than to try to put words in my mouth.
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    Al low Guvner

    Andy9o8 replied to Amazon's topic in The Bonfire

    did you mean GAOL (jail, to yanks) Probably. An Irish goal would be "the next pint".
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    I've always wondered how the 3 of you work that out. Oh, well; none o' my biz.
  18. Andy9o8
    Your standard meme of expressing your personal bigotry has grown utterly boring. (OK, gm, do your predictable thing.)
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    Really? OK, let's see how long you can hold your breath.
  20. Andy9o8
    Hypothetically, I suppose if I had a girlfriend, I wouldn't share her with my wife.
  21. Andy9o8
    Hm, that would affect his tart loading.
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    https://si0.twimg.com/profile_images/2221189782/beavis_butthead.jpg
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    Flavor of Pop-Tart? Frosted or unfrosted?
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    It's a 7 week old story, and it's been posted-about before here, and talked to death. No, I'm not being the posting police; but really, at what point do we Americans totally overwhelm the website with our obsession with "new" gun threads? A some point it gets like Tourette's.
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    Sigh. As if it's not obvious. I swear, I am so alone.